The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-08-05
ABOUT WOMEN.


hundred letters about her book Boots
and Saddles" and has answered them
all
DIR Martha G. Ripley is the only
woman among the faculty of the Hompo-
pathic College OF Minnesota at Minnea-
polls.
Miss Letta L. Burlingame, OF Ann
Arbor, Michigan, has been licensed to
practice law by the Illinois Supreme
Court.
Miss Marietta Holley Josiah Aliens
Wife, received eleven thousand dollars
FOR the manuscript of her new book,
Samantha IT Saratoga"
Miss Minna K. Pollock, of New York,
Translator and typewriter, has been APP
pointed by the board of aldermen as
commissioner of deeds.
There are 3lS women employed as
prison officials in England, with salaries
varying from S225 TO $500 per annum,
and in addition fuel, hgets, quarters and
uniform.
The women of New York have been
granted more patents than their sisters
in any other State. The women OF Mas
sachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin
rank next in order.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in re-
cent visit TO Paris, met some of the most
distinguished sutfragists of France at a
reception given at the residence of her
son, Theodore Stanton.
Mrs. Frank Leslie is of Huguenot
extraction, and was born in the French
quarter of New Orleans. She speaks
French, Spanish, Italian, German and
English with equal fiuency.
Mrs. Helen Campbell, since her
Prisoners of Poverty" called attention
10 the sufferings of poor sewing women,
has received hundreds of applications
from naOrNIn vxh hn
The name of the first woman grad
uate of Columbia is Miss Mary Parsons
Hankey. She is about 20 years of age,
and is the daughter of Lawyer James
Hankey, who lives at Garrison's Station,
Staten Island.
The medical attendants of ex-Emp-
ress Carlotta of Mexico begin 10 hopo
hat she will fully recover her mental
powers. She is AZ years of age and is at
present confined in the Chateau de Bon
cot, near Brussels.
Mary Clayton Black, daughter OF the
late jeremiah :. Black, Is to publish dur
ing the summer a sketch of her fathers
life Miss Black acted az private secretary
10 her father for many years, and is in
possession OF his papers.
A Chicago special says that Nina Van
Zandt, the wife of August Spies, by
proxy, is rapidly failing in health and
not likely 10 live long enough 10 learn
the decision of the supreme Court with
reference to her husbands fate.
Miss Winifred EigcrtDn, who re
ceived the degree Of Ph. u. from Colum-
oia College last year, II the teacher Of
mathematics in the New York school Of
which Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland
has become the associate principal.
Under the new rules Of precedent al
the White House Miss Bayard, although
she is the youngest, will next year out
rank all the other ladies OF the Cabinet
This is because she i daughter OF the
Secretary OF State and presides over his
household.
Two Venetian ladies named Silvestri
have formed At Vienna a school for Young
girls 70 learn the srt Of mOsaics. and have
given them the Palazzo Sceriman in
which to work. They execute orders of
all kinds, sending the work in sections TO
any part Of the world.
Mrs. L. F. Baldy, of California, is
about to establish colony Of silk cultur-
ists in Maryland. A tract of one hundred
acres near OdentOn will be divided
among ten colonists, and by next spring
she hopes to have the experiment fully
under way. She proposes to raise grapes
along with the silk-worms, as the worms
require but SIX weeks OF care. Mrs.
Badly is a member of the Woman's Silk
Culture Association Of the United States
DIR. Mary F. Thomas, Of Richmond,
Indiana, sent very able paper on He
redlty' to the recent annual meeting of
the Indiana State Medical Society at In
dianapoiis. DIR. Thomas could not be
present, and the paper WAS read by Mrs.
Mary +. Haggart, oil indianapolis. The
character of the paper, and the excellent
manner in which it was read, secured
the earnest attention OF the members Of
the Medical Society.
Miss Helen Gray Cone, whose poems
have given her prominent place among
our young women of letters, and Miss
Jennette L. Glider of the "Critic," are at
work on book in two volumes, to be
called, "Pen Portraits of Literary
Women" The portraits are drawn by
the women themselves, and by their
contemporaries. With two exceptions,
George Sand and Harriet Beecher Stowe,
these portraits are of English literary wo-
men, from Hannah Moore to George Elliot.
A concise biographical sketch of each,
written by Miss Cone, is followed.by de-
scriptive anecdotes culled from every
conceivable source.